In 1880, Émile Belot published a monograph on Pseudo-Xenophon’s Constitution of the Athenians, in which he took an unusual position: he interpreted the Constitution of the Athenians as a letter written by Xenophon to the Spartan King Agesilaus in 378 BC. To explain this interpretation, this paper introduces Belot as a researcher and a teacher; and then attempts to place him and his work in the context of the historical-philological studies of his time ; finally, it evaluates his methodological approach and his scholarly contributions.
Bearzot, C. S., Une lettre de Xénophon au roi de Sparte Agésilas ? La singulière monographie d’Émile Belot, in Lenfant D, L. D. (ed.), Les aventures d’un pamphlet antidémocratique. Transmission et lectures plurielles de la Constitution des Athéniens du Pseudo-Xénophon (Ve siècle av. J.-C.- XXIe siècle), De Boccard, Paris 2020: 143- 164 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/160941]
Une lettre de Xénophon au roi de Sparte Agésilas ? La singulière monographie d’Émile Belot
Bearzot, Cinzia Susanna
2020
Abstract
In 1880, Émile Belot published a monograph on Pseudo-Xenophon’s Constitution of the Athenians, in which he took an unusual position: he interpreted the Constitution of the Athenians as a letter written by Xenophon to the Spartan King Agesilaus in 378 BC. To explain this interpretation, this paper introduces Belot as a researcher and a teacher; and then attempts to place him and his work in the context of the historical-philological studies of his time ; finally, it evaluates his methodological approach and his scholarly contributions.
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